History essay about women.

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History short essay 1

Women are a symbol of independence, love, care and gentleness. Women are also more emotionally stronger than men. However, women have not been treated nicely by all men throughout time. They have been denied their rights and opportunities. The women's rights movement began around the 1900's and is still being continued by the women of today. Most people believed that women were supposed to stay at home or in the kitchen, they did not see men and women as being equal because the whole population had been raised on this belief, women usually accepted their inferiority forced upon them.

In the United States, the rights of women have been constantly evolving.

During this evolution, the Americans benefited from significant measures in many areas: education, health, family life, employment and participation in political life. The US experience shows that the improvement of women's rights has helped better the lives of their families, their environment, their workplace and their country.

The beginnings of the movement for women's rights in the United States are linked to the abolitionist movement, many Americans supported. It is the exclusion of women delegates at the World Congress against slavery in 1840 in London which prompted Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott to consider the creation of a movement for the rights of women in the United States.

During the first half of the nineteenth century, women did not have the same rights as men. They could not vote, be elected, pursue higher education or have a profession. If they were married, they could not enter into a contract, divorce or gain custody of their children.

In July, 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized the first Congress on the Rights of Women in Seneca Falls (New York), which was attended by three hundred people. Based on the US Declaration of Independence, their "Declaration of Sentiments" demanded equal rights for women, including the right to vote.

In 1890, two groups combined to forms the National American woman Suffrage Association. The first full women's suffrage before 1900 are only in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and Wyoming. For the rest of the United States, the full women's suffrage was issued between 1900 and 1920. The last states to have recognized the voting rights are the southern states.

Progress was made on the legal and economic, in 1920, following the ratification of the nineteenth amendment to the US Constitution, American women finally gained the right to vote. The economic policy changed the importance of women in society more so than the political policies.

First, the economic role of women decreased during the rural exodus to the cities. However, the Great Depression, which began with the crash of the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929 forced women to seek employment outside the home to support their families.

Then, during World War II, almost 38% of Americans occupied the jobs left by men who were on the battlefield. After the war, many of them had to leave their jobs with the return of the soldiers, but the economic expansion of the late

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